Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Brooks Mill:
40.373554, -78.422942
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Brooks Mill
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Blair County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Brooks Mill.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Brooks Mill is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of three communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Modoc County
This Brooks Mill is located in Modoc County and lies 2,168 miles [3,489.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Brooks Mill that is located in Blair County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Modoc County community of Brooks Mill.
Missouri
New Madrid County
Although located in New Madrid County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Madrid County community of Brooks Mill.
Ontario
This Brooks Mill lies 349 miles [561.7 km]<1> to the north of the Brooks Mill that is located in Blair County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Brooks Mill ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Brooks Mill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Brooks Mill and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 81 miles [130.4 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Brooks Mill to Harrisburg, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 125 miles [201.2 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,892 miles [9,482.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,607 miles [10,632.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,482 miles [7,213.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Brooks Mill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Brooks Mill to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brooks Mill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3736, Longitude: -78.4229 In this case, the coordinates for Brooks Mill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.627 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.503 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.745 degrees.